Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-09-08

The normal college at Shenandoah has
| cpcned with the largest attendance in its
history.
The Tibbles Sewing Machine company
has mace arrangements to move its fac.
tory to Burlington.
A special from Prairie City, Sept
says: About II nj hi, last Wednesday,
Orville, little son of Jesse Wilson, of this
town, was playing in the front yard at
the family residence, when he heard a
crash in the parlor, and upon entering
the room saw, through the clouds of sui.
phurous smoke which cnyeloped her, the
form of his sister Lou stretched upon the
sofa, rigid and lfeless. A CORY stream
from a gaping wound in her breast told
too plainly the fatal effect of the shot
from Il smoking revolver that lay beside
her. Her arrangements for self .destruc.
ton had been deliberate and careful. She
had written letters to her father and to a
young man named Willard Robinson, with
whom she had been keeping company for
a long time, and had placed in a con.
venient position flannel and a lace dress,
upon which she had pinned a note request.
ing that she be buried in one or the other,
| then she had laid down upon the couch,
and had opened her dress in front
that she might make no mistake, and had
pressed the muzzlc of the revolver into
her bare breast and fred. She died from
dependency. .s ..
The Omaha Bee, of the 9Th, says that
Will c. Cutting died at 10 o'clock yester-
day morning from dose of laudanum
administered by his own hand. The un.
| fortunate man is a resident of Vinton.
Iowa, where he has a wife and two
children living. He left his family about
the latter part of May to take Job of
breaking on the U. p. railway. He was
unfortunate enough to lose this position.
and got job of working on the Omaha
streets. He was unable TO meet the con-
| tinual demands of his wife for money,
and he grew respondent. In her last
letter to him she plainly intimated that if
he did not send her more money she in
tended to make some herself by leading a
| life Of shame. He received this letter on
Saturday afternoon, and few minutes
later he asked Mrs. Wicks, the lady with
whom he boarded. for butcher knife,
giving as an excuse for this strange re-
quest, that he wished TO pare his finger
nails She had no butcher knife, but
handed him her scissors, pair blunt at
ha A 60, La l.
cd the scissors, went to the nearest drug
store, and returning laid down on the
sofa. 1t was soon found out that he had
taken laudanum, from the effects of
which he died. ... ...s
The Odd Fellows Of Iowa are making
extensive preparations to attend the meet
Ing of the Sovereign grand lodge at Den
yer September IA. The grand lodge Of
Iowa will meet at Omaha on the 18th and
proceed to Denver.
Belle PLANE is soon to make another
effort to close the big well. At present a
four-inch stream carries out the water ex-
cepting the the leak that comes evidently
from the tubing put in by Mr.. King.
Palmer Bros, who have been engaged as
wet nurses are preparing an eight.inch
pipe with an automatic flange attachment
outside, to insert in Kings tubing, and
when in place, propose to fill with cement
and thus have an cight-inch well under
control. When everything is lovely it is
proposed to use the water power for an
electric plant.
Henry Lees, foreman on w. NJ Fields
e Bros stock farm, three and a half
miles southwest of Cedar Rapids, was
gorcd to death by a bull Sept. 2. 1t is
supposed he fell and dropped the stick by
which he was leading the animal, When
found five minutes after he was dead,
having been completely dsembowcled.
w. J. Knight. attorney for the Illinois
Central railway, has returned to Dubuque
from Chicago where he had been in con-
,ultatinn with the officials of the road, in
regard to the decision recently given by
he Iowa Railroad Commissioners, com.
pcling the Illinois Central and the Chica-
90. Milwaukee & st. Paul to switch cars
He SAYS the decision is very unjust and
that the companies will not comply with
it but will appeal TO the courts.
The First National bank Of Clarion was
'rganizci last week with capital Of $50,
~ 1t succeeds to the business Of the
Nrigh, county bank, the oldest bank in
he county. The officers elected are g.
j. Ringiand. president; y. f.. Weber, vice
president; Ell Hartrock, cashier; directors
G. 5. Ringland, Webb Vincent, L. S.
L tcs Ed Harstock and N. +. Weber
A new daily one cent paper, The Du.
,huque Independent; was started lin that
city Sept. /. 1t is Independent Republi-
IN in politics and will be strongly anti.
Catholic. 1t is the only penny paper pub
!;shed west of Chicago ~ ;.
The State Board of Health has received
a letter asking whether a person who
holds certificate from the State Board
of Medical Examiners can travel over the
State and practice medicine. To this the
Board replied that he cannot; that he
thereby becomes an itinerant physician
subject to Section 10 of the Pharmacy
Law which requires an itinerant physician
to procure license That the medical
practice act.appliesto resident physicians
that when a physician takes temporary
residence in another county he becomes
an itlnerant The State cscon-
mission affirms this decision.
John ], Blair. who has done more than
any person, in cash. for Iowa railroads,
is eighty-f1ve years old. and is in good
health living at Blairstown. N. j.. S n
1t is understood that Mr.. A. B Stickney,
who is the moving spirit and controls the
capital of what is called the Iowa Diagon-
al, is going to build opposition stock yards
at Chicago, as his son.in-law A. +. Schiff.